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ProFootballTalk on NBCSports.comTue, 03 Mar 2015 18:42:36 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Debhttp://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/10/15/john-harbaugh-i-have-no-idea-what-aaron-rodgers-is-talking-about/#comment-2880110
Sun, 20 Oct 2013 20:25:57 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2880110John Harbaugh had trouble understanding complaints about a supposedly bad hit. Yeah, I can empathize. I had trouble understanding his whining that random rock songs being played in a stadium were about his QB.
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:14:52 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2875855Maybe Jim, I mean John ought to worry about trying to win games not what another team’s QB has to say!
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Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:50:35 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2874395The only way Rodgers would be Ok with the hit is if there was no injury. He’s just mad that he has to play without Cobb for an extended period. Obviously, that will have an impact on him and his team.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Aaron Rodgers may be a great quarterback but he’s a diva. Next man up.

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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:12:41 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2870747crownofthehelmet says:
Oct 15, 2013 10:00 PM
danoj14, no BS. Go watch the replay. Anyone semi-athletic between the age of 17 and 55 could’ve easily wrapped him up and taken him down. Heck, since Cobb was blind on the play, they could just ball-up and he would trip over him.

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Have you watched a game from the sidelines? Do you realize how fast it is? On TV and in the stands it appears much slower than it actually is.

Reaction time is much different. You think Elam had that much time to ponder the best way to hit Cobb?

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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:45:05 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2870565how about this….the league can fine anybody for a hit that causes injury if the defensive player had a chance to use their hands to make the tackle and choose not to. if you look at that replay he dove into Cobb’s legs with his hands under his body. I totally understand it’s football and just get the guy down any way you can, but the art of tackling has certainly gone to the wayside.
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 02:00:56 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2870041danoj14, no BS. Go watch the replay. Anyone semi-athletic between the age of 17 and 55 could’ve easily wrapped him up and taken him down. Heck, since Cobb was blind on the play, they could just ball-up and he would trip over him.
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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 01:22:49 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869957We really need to eliminate violence from the game. The NFL needs to rid away with actual players and go digital. Technology has replaced many jobs once relied on by humans. From a business perspective it makes complete sense- less overhead, with same if not better effect. Fans can attend games and be provided 3-d glasses (just like at the movies).

Can be done with the use of an overhead projector that reflects down onto basically a tilted piece of glass that’s on field level. Can then reflect the reflection onto a mylar sort of screen, and it projects it into 3-D.

Why pay 53 men to play in real life when you can pay one man to control the 3-D video game team? The controller can then create as much violence with the players as he wants (think NFL Blitz N64 style). The possibilities are endless

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Wed, 16 Oct 2013 00:39:44 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869874It was a dirty “tackle” there was nothing clean about it..you don’t need to dive into a receivers knees at full throttle to make a play.

That had injury written all over it. I agree with rodgers that elam should
have taken a different approach to that move..mid section knock the wind out of him but don’t break dudes legs

Check out that polamalu hit on jets’ hill at the sideline..now that’s a true tackle

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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:59:59 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869246This isn’t that shocking to me…. Aarogant Rodgers is the biggest crybaby in the NFL.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:57:18 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869240getyourownname says:
I saw the game. Elam was the last defender and looked like he might not have been able to tackle the ballcarrier if he had gone high.
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Oh my, this couldn’t be further from the truth. You must have one of those new 3-D tv’s, D for delusional. Elam had plenty of time to size up a receiver who didn’t even see him yet. I could’ve made that tackle, and without chopping the knee.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 19:35:39 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869181Elam took out a green bay packer. that sounds good to me. Rodgers is complaining about it.. THAT MEANS Elam hurt the right one. and we dont have to double check cause Rodgers already did that.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:26:46 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869037Rodgers was not saying it was illegal. He is saying it was an unnecessary dirty hit. The guy did not have to lower his head and go for the knees. He could have hit him in the mid section just as easy. Just because something is technically legal does not make it right.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:22:23 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2869030….sooooo sick of those whiney-a.zz hairball brothers…..A POX ON BOTH OF THEM……
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:57:36 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868980pushn50 says:
Oct 15, 2013 1:21 PM
Cobb has a broken leg as a result of this debacle, and sadly, this IMPORTANT fact is not even mentioned on this story!

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What you mean is “Cobb has a broken leg as a result of this legal hit and this is tackle football, not flag.”

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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:56:13 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868975jjthesportsguy says:
Oct 15, 2013 8:58 AM
While I agree that it is not against the rules, I think it is certainly a gray area. I definitely think this type of hit is something that will be addressed in the coming years.

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What? How can you agree that it isn’t against the rules and then say it’s a gray area? There’s no gray area here. The knee is part of the legal hitting zone.

They have to make the game safer for the players, but you don’t care. You want blood, gore, injuries. It’s not your knee, or brain on the line, right? This is football, not gladiators. You’re probaby expecting to see Tony Romo get on the PA after a game and say “Are you not entertained?”

Clean hit or dirty hit? I don’t know. But the resistance to added safety by some of you is pointless.

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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:48:05 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868955Coach…..look up “how to tackle when playing football” in wikiknows. It has step by step photographic instructions. THAT’S what Rodgers is talking about. Glad to help, but you should’ve known this already. The “launch your body through their legs and knees” is not demonstrated….(for some odd reason.)
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:28:50 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868911This is no longer about the players. This is about a Chicago based sportswriter trying to stir up controversy about a one and done comment. Rodgers said one thing on the field and then he was done. The press keep asking people what they think about what he said because they have nothing insightful to say about football until next Sunday.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:28:42 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868908Stop with the “Flag Football” crud.

Tip: if you are in a football discussion and someone says “its turning in to flag football,” just walk away. You dealing with a thoughtless idiot.

You cant cite the “glory days” of tackle football while those same players are suing the NFL for their head boo boo’s.

Im with olskool711, i want to watch the best players play. The colts were a fun team, Manning goes down and i never watched another game that season.

Those yelling “flag football” need to stop pretending that this game is here to do anything but entertain. If the product on the field consists of backups and hasbeen you are not going to watch the games anymore.

And dont give me any noise about “i watch the complexities of the game,” because you dont. If you did you would not care about big hits and some of the other superficial nascar-esque parts of the game.

Simply put, if you want to be entertained, you need the best players on the field. If you want to be a Couch Head Coach then you need the best players on the field. Having them all sidelined because of some Caveman interpretation of what football “should be” is completely and utterly moronic.

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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:21:06 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868883Cobb has a broken leg as a result of this debacle, and sadly, this IMPORTANT fact is not even mentioned on this story!
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:19:09 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868875After reading all these complaints about how low this hit was or so on. I think the NFL should just pass a new rule where instead of playing with Footballs they play with balloons, instead of wearing helmets they wear paper hats, and instead of pads, its bra’s over their jerseys. You want to complain? that’s explain how you make the league sound. A tackle is a tackle. That’s the reason football is so popular to begin with. You could just stop watching football altogether and go watch ice skating or something to that nature.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:14:37 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868861QBS IS BECOMING A CRY BABY
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:57:00 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868796Elam should have politely tapped Cobb on the shoulder and asked where he’d like to be tackled. Afterwards they can sit down for tea and knit some doilies!
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:29:05 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868718Looks like Rodgers has a new “friend” since he dumped Ryan Braun. Randall Rodgers-Cobb.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:13:44 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868685Two years ago the sky was falling on this board because Darth Goodell was outlawing hits to the head.

Football will be ruined, never be the same. We will soon be outfitting players in dresses.

You guys were wrong.

A couple weeks ago my team hit the opposing quarterback on the knee, knocked him out of the game, and we won. YEA!!!

The next few days I read time and time again how the hit was legal, yada yada blah blah blah.

How unmanly it would be for me to feel like that hit was unnecessary and was intended to take the guy out. THIS IS FOOTBALL!!! Even though my teams quarterback was taken out earlier, the victory still left a bad taste.

Despite how much I might dislike other teams star players, do I really want them on the sidelines and not playing?

Just win baby, if you aint cheating you aint tryin. Hey, its part of the game.

I like it when my team wins against the other teams star players. I like watching gifted athletes play the greatest sport there is.

I get it, to be a real man I have to believe that driving my pads or helmet into the opponents knees is good for the sport. Its the only way we can enjoy football. Forcing players to come in with helmet up, driving the pads through the waist or chest, wraping up, and driving down is asking way, way, way too much. It will ruin the game. Thanks for setting me straight.

Maybe I’m getting old.

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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:12:20 +0000http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=2217502#comment-2868680Dealing with the unintended consequences of the league making the high / head shot illegal is the issue.

Too bad a majority of players today no longer tackle other players in the manner they’d been taught since Pop Warner football – heads up, see the ball carrier, wrap up and put down.

The players launch themselves to hit with their shoulder, head or helmet with nary the intent of using their arms to ‘blow up’ the ball carrier.

Wait til its one of the Blowhard brothers’ players laying on the ground – it will be a different tune.